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Obama to CEOs: Ask What You Can Do for America

WASHINGTON -- Echoing John F. Kennedy, President Barack Obama prodded business leaders Monday to "ask yourselves what you can do for America," not just for company bottom lines, even as he sought to smooth his uneasy relations with the nation's corporate executives. Speaking to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the president...

Obama Takes Aim at Regulation as GOP Targets Health Care Law

To regulate or not to regulate? That is the question President Barack Obama is ordering every federal agency and office to ask in a government-wide review aimed at eliminating rules on the books that are outdated, stifle job creation or make the U.S. economy less competitive. But the initiative seems focused as much on...

Opinion: Puerto Rico Bites the Hand That Feeds It

(Nov. 10) -- Few places have been as hard hit by the recession as Puerto Rico. Over the past two years, the commonwealth has seen its unemployment climb from an already high 13 percent to a gut-wrenching 16 percent. So why did Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuno just sign a law that will almost certainly make this picture even...

Critics Slam Obama Over Warren Appointment

In Elizabeth Warren's 2007 article in the journal Democracy, the Harvard University professor decried what she called the "tricks and traps" some financial institutions used to lure consumers into mortgages, credit cards or other financial agreements they couldn't afford. Warren proposed creating a government watchdog...

Opinion: SEC Gets It Right on New Investor Rules

(Sept. 2) -- You may think the topic of "proxy access" has nothing to do with you, if you've even heard of the term. But if you own stock, directly or through mutual funds, want to retire someday or want to keep your job, you'd be wrong ... way wrong. The topic and recently announced changes in Securities and Exchange...

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GOP Majority in House May Not Happen, Says Chamber of Commerce Head

One of the business world's most powerful lobbyists, the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce , reportedly thinks Democrats will narrowly hold their majority in the House of Representatives in the Nov. 2 midterm election.